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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Summer of Festivals - Tulip Time - Holland, MI

This will be our third summer in Michigan. Michigan is a place FULL of festivals. They have festivals for flowers, vegetables, fungi (a.k.a. mushrooms), cars, antiques, historical events, and on and on. Every year we say we are going to go and every year we are insanely busy, the menfolk don't want to go, we forget, or mostly we are just plain broke. This year we decided we are going to these festivals no matter what.

The first festival on our list is one that my Mom chose. The Tulip Time Festival in Holland. She went when she was young with her parents. This weekend A. was off with her buddies at a Taylor Swift concert and the boys were hanging out with Grandpa and Dad getting the garden ready for me to plant. So Rachel, Mom, and I headed off to Holland for the Tulip Time Festival.

First festival lesson learned, it may not be such a great idea to go to a festival on the very first day. It was crazy busy there. People and cars everywhere and we really had no idea where we were going. Just about every festival has a section like a county fair with rides and games and such and we didn't want to go to that part of the festival. Not sure I could get my Mom on a ride even if we had wanted to go that portion. But trying to get around all of those people was ridiculous. Eventually we found a parking spot and found the free tulip garden. I never knew there were so many varieties of tulips. Just gorgeous colors and variations in the petal size and shape.

We all had our favorite. Of course as we walked around that kept changing.

All the streets were lined with these gorgeous trees. Not sure what they were but they were all in full bloom with the pretty pinkish purplish blossoms on them. Just beautiful.﻿

All in all for our first festival, and not knowing where we were going, or what exactly was happening there, we had a good time, saw a new city that we plan on visiting again, and got one thing checked off of our bucket list for the summer.

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Welcome to my blog. I am a stay at home mom with three of the most adorable kids on the planet. We recently made a HUGE move from Arizona to Michigan. This blog is for our friends and family we left behind so they can keep track of us as we adjust to country life.